From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Oct 3 17:24:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA26363 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sat, 3 Oct 1998 17:24:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA26352 for ; Sat, 3 Oct 1998 17:24:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id JAA12812; Sun, 4 Oct 1998 09:54:19 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id JAA09763; Sun, 4 Oct 1998 09:54:18 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19981004095417.E8240@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1998 09:54:17 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Lanny Baron , "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Device Drivers for Linux and Intel's annoucement References: <12675.907416965@time.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Lanny Baron on Sat, Oct 03, 1998 at 02:04:45PM -0400 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Saturday, 3 October 1998 at 14:04:45 -0400, Lanny Baron wrote: > I dont quite understand what all this fighting is about. But > Jordan, I only know you as the "boss man" of FreeBSD. There must be a lot > of die-hard FreeBSD fans out here. Would it not be better to just try to > organize, with some of those people, some ways we can help to promote > FreeBSD? Lets face it, when its installed, its a great system. That's basically what -advocacy is about. What we were (originally) discussing here was one aspect of how to do this most effectively. > Not to put down FreeBSD, but when I contacted both cannon for my > printer and real audio, they both said they have never heard of FreeBSD. > Some how you must get your good name in journals or what ever these execs > from large company's read. Sure, we're not very evident. But running around and beating your chest doesn't help there. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message